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  1. Re:Yes? And? on Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' · · Score: 2

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was not captured in a war zone, but in Macedonia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Nasr was captured in Italy (NATO partner, has extradition treaty with the US, has a functioning police system), tortured and illegally detained for 4 years until he was finally released.

  2. Re:There is a bug in google SMS+hangout? No! on Google Hangouts and SMS Integration: A Mess, For Now · · Score: 1

    The search is hidden in the gmail web interface. YOu can search all your chats there; there's just no search interface in Hangouts itself.

  3. Re:IPv6 on IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Your situation is "My ISP doesn't provide IPv6" and you are angry that it isn't plug&play?! That's like having an ISP that only provides IPX and complaining that IPv4 doesn't work. IPv6 works out-of-the-box on ISPs that provide IPv6.

  4. Re:My opinion on the matter. on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 0

    Oh no, you'll have to learn something new once every ~20 years!

  5. Re:Did you still get the links outside Europe on Google Reinstating Some 'Forgotten' Links · · Score: 2

    Which one of your rights is assaulted when Google, a private enterprise, decides to not show you certain links?

  6. Re:Windows XP still at 28.98% on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Pass 10% Market Share, Windows XP Falls Below 30% · · Score: 2

    Office 2013 doesn't run on anything older than Windows 7.

  7. Re:Have a great trip! on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would also recommend the Imperial War Museum if you are interested in ww1 and ww2.

  8. Re:ImageMagick on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    in combination with simple bash for loops can handle most of the image processing joe user needs.

    The age of digital photography does see plenty of people composing their own images. These folk, however, will google around and emerge *oops* apt-get install gimp.

    Joe user does not what a "bash" is.

  9. Re:Methodology fads on Becoming Agile · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but 6 sigma has gone retro here. Here's to 2020 being late 90's dot com chaos!

    Yeah, this time i will cash in and charge six figures for the 2020-equivalent of HTML!

  10. Re:Internet black magic not dead yet on EBay Sells Skype To Marc Andreessen · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yet another free service gets snapped up for billions, in the hopes that it will somehow generate more than the expended value in ad revenue. Either that or some other magical source of cash influx that will not be spent by its users who are used to getting it free and will jump ship if subscription models become mandatory.

    It seems a lot of people still believe that when the internet is involved, tried and true business rules and plain old common sense do not apply. Is the black magic of the interwebs not dead yet?

    Last i checked, Skype was ad-free and financed itself through charging for connections to "real" phones and for national phone numbers.
    You have no clue what you are writing about.

  11. Re:Does that mean... on US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word · · Score: 1

    Open Office does have a legacy format not based on the ODF.

  12. Re:Hell called on Microsoft Releases Linux Device Drivers As GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Too bad the software in question is released under the GPL V2 which doesn't have patent clauses in them.

    You know, except for the part that says "if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program."

    Which only applies to you when you try to distribute it; this does not cover the initial distribution by Microsoft (one of the flaws which were corrected in GPLv3).

  13. Re:Pictures versus digital photos... on New Developments In NPG/Wikipedia Lawsuit Threat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if accurate reproductions require a great deal of skill, experience and effort, the key element for copyrightability under U.S. law is that copyrighted material must show sufficient originality.

    Which does not matter, as the museum is in the UK and threatening a lawsuit under UK law.

  14. Re:not surprising.. on Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo · · Score: 1

    Why do people think this. GPS is *not* something that can be, or is received over cell networks. GPS units in phones are just that â" they are chips that tune into the radio signals put out by GPS satellites.

    So repeat after me: GPS is still GPS, even though it's in my phone.

    That's right, but every GPS-App relies on GPRS/UMTS/EVDO to download routes and maps; you cannot use them outside of cell-coverage.

  15. Re:Real geeks on Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed · · Score: 1

    use telnet for browsing the internet.

    Real geeks look down on lusers who use this fancy telnet; they use netcat!

  16. Re:As usual with new Firefox releases... on Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or about stopping the auto-update. I use yum to install firefox automatically, then about 4 hours later I get message telling me that "Congratulations, you have firefox 3.0.11 installed", which breaks Google Streetview - it just remains black and no options actually appear in the Preferences->Clear Private Data popup. Reinstall Firefox using yum install, Google Streetview works again, and the cycle repeats.

    How is this a Firefox-Issue? open a Bug with your distro to set the updates off. And turn off automatic updates in the preferrences.

  17. Re:Because Cisco would never do such a thing on Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think this is also because Nokia sold more than net limiting technology. Apparently they also sold devices which pick up the EMR's emitted by cell phones which allowed police to home in on any person who has a phone on their person - especially to those who are making calls/texting/transmitting data. To my knowledge such technology is not in use in China (currently).

    This is bog-standard technology implemented in any modern network. It's used by 911-operators to home in on your location if you are unable to speak (or cut off) and used by police to follow suspects (in addition to a GPS-Tracker in the car). There's nothing specialy made for repressive regimes; it's just technology which also may be used to suppress people.

  18. Re:Fark on The State of Iran's Ongoing Netwar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hardly any time to post. Spending most of my time on Fark

    Yup, Fark is the place to be.
    Best coverage currently.
    You should have liniked to Tatsumas writeup of the events: https://sites.google.com/site/tatsumairanupdate/

  19. Re:How very... on EU Sues Sweden, Demands ISP Data Retention · · Score: 1

    The Pirate-Parties are loosely-coupled.

  20. Re:Channel 14 on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Because channel 14 is not licensed.

  21. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 2, Interesting

    naturally.

  22. Re:Security? on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 1

    The point isn't that web site owner uses it on his site, the point is that it gets installed into IE and then you can use it on addresses on any site to bring up a map on the highlighted address. Particularly, I suppose on sites where the the address isn't linked for whatever reason (like say you're looking at a text file, instead of an html file).

    Nope, doesn't work that way.
    The site-owner has to explicitly enable Accelerators on his site through additional markup.

  23. Re:Security? on Look Out, Firefox 3 — IE8 Is Back On Top For Now · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't seem to understand what Accelerators are. They are additional markup which denotes that additional information can be downloaded on demand by the user. An example would be the map-accelerator: if you mark an adress with the additional markup, a user can right-click on the area and open google maps in an iframe. Nothing automatic, nothing wierd or non-standard. There even exist a firefox-addon for that functionality: http://www.cleeki.com/firefox.html

  24. Re:Drives on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the google hard-drive whitepaper (~2004? 2005?) said that hard-drives running in an environment around 38C were less prone to failures than cool hard-drives.

  25. Re:advisors on Yahoo Spent $79 Million To Fend Off Microsoft · · Score: 1

    $79 million for advisors? Seriously? I think I'm in the wrong line of work. Can anyone explain that to me? How can that possibly cost that much?

    I could tell you, but i charge 1000$/word.